Fascism

fascist regime led by Adolf Hitler. Nationalism and Fascism, marked as two different ideologies, are inherently similar ideas with many overlapping characteristics. While some aspects of nationalism difference from fascism, their characteristics ultimately promote the same idea, an idea which led to the beginning of World War II. Nationalism, in its truest and purest form, can simply mean “patriotic feelings, principles…

the citizens of nations that soon turned to fascist ideology, such as Germany and Italy. The consequences set forth in the Treaty of Versailles coupled with the nationalist sentiments rising in Europe since the nineteenth century led to a rise in fascism as a hope of regaining their nation’s former glory after the humiliation suffered in World War I. Over the course of World War I, the new concept of “total war” killed much of a nation’s population and engulfed the entire population in the war…

Prior to 1938 Fascism had already asserted their power over the citizens of Italy. Just 13 years after Benito Mussolini, Duce of the Fascist regime, announced his intent to rule without Parliament; the Fascist regime had announced their Manifesto on Race which was published in Il Giornale d’Italia on July 14, 1938. Until this point, anti-Semitism was not a staple of the Fascist ideals and very little of a racial inferiority was mentioned towards the Jewish and other foreign nationals located in…

Defining Nazi-Soviet Relations by Political Philosophy Communism and Fascism, at one glance, seems to be similar in the philosophy of collectivism and anti-democracy. However, the two philosophies cannot coexist due to the striking differences in loyalty and social roles. Both philosophies agreed on two major ideas that people should blend into their communities and that capitalism was unfair and harmful. However, Communism believes that the people are loyal to their social class, so they are…

history. He plunged his country into an alliance with Nazi Germany and a disastrous war, leaving it literally in ruins. Yet Italy’s relationship with and feeling towards the dictator were; and remain, complex and contradictory. We know much about how Fascism functioned in Italy in the 1930s, the major institutions, figures and policies. However, how the ordinary Italian has viewed Mussolini during his lifetime has remained somewhat of a…

Fascist party to come to power. Fascism can be described as a “revolutionary form of nationalism” (Griffin, 1991). Mussolini himself said that Fascism is “everything in the state, nothing against the State, nothing outside the state.” Though the ideas associated with Fascism were new and seen as more of a “prototype”, Mussolini was able to use the growing support for the new ideology to his advantage in his accumulation of power. The origins of Italian fascism can be attributed to the…

Through the analysis of Liberal Italy and Fascism, one can see how the 1960 Olympics both continued the autonomous path forged under Mussolini, and simultaneously, challenged the traditional female gender roles, established in this patriarchal society. More specifically, the Olympics enabled Italian women to have a newfound visibility that was not predicated on commodifying one’s body or labor, and ? From 1862-1922, Italy was in the Liberal period, which was loosely based on the “notions of…

created the newly formed Command Economy. The NEM which allowed some forms of private business was immediately stopped. Stalin’s new CE was only controlled by the government. Italy-AUTHORITARIANS (Class notes, Fascist Italy Outline Notes) 1. Italian Fascism was based on the idea of extreme nationalism and the idea of expanding territory to be able to exert Fascist influences. During his reign, Mussolini recognized and identified modern Italy to be the ancestors of the mighty Julius Caesar and…

Representative democracy is more effective for maintaining society than fascism because in a representative democracy the people are represented through their elected officials while in a fascist rule it is more focused on authoritarian rule where people have to be obedient to the ruler, where people don’t really get as much participation in the politics and making of the policies as a representative democracy. Also people have been historically to respond better to a democratic government where…

more arguments as of late than presidential candidate Donald Trump. One of the most hotly contested aspects of Donald Trump is whether or not his political platform constitutes fascism. Two articles that explore this topic of Donald Trump’s status as a fascist are The Red Phoenix’s Donald Trump and the Rise of Neo-Fascism and Tim Stanley’s Donald Trump is Not a Fascist and Violence is Nothing New in American Politics. Both articles take very difference stances on the matter and use different…